This article is part of the Open Web Awards, an open, international contest for the best websites and services. We know that Clearspring is the biggest widget network in the world, but they are also dominating early voting in the Embeddable Widgets category of the Open Web Awards. Top competitors so far include Sprout and RadicalBuy, while last year’s winners – Flockr and Widgetbucks – did not make it to the voting round. Here’s a look at all of the companies in the running: ConveyThis – Translates a website or blog post into any of 29 different languages. Clearspring –...
The explosion of Flash content like widgets has created several complex problems, like how to index it in search engines, how to make it work on mobile, and how to track it. The latter is being addressed today at Adobe Max, where Google is announcing Analytics Tracking for Flash, which will let publishers track metrics for their flash applications from within Google’s popular stats package. Aside from the unique file format, one of the major differences between tracking Flash and tracking webpages is that Flash can be embedded anywhere – meaning that analytics software needs to be able to measure...
Webbr is a new startup that provides a visual social network where you can see how everyone is connected at-a-glance. Many pundits believe that Web 3.0 (aka “the Semantic Web”) will be vastly more visual than what we see today in our Web 2.0 world. Despite the proliferation of online images and streaming videos, according to the experts, the near-future web experience will include an even greater amount of graphical elements. Webbr believes it has developed a social network that gives us a glimpse of this visual future. Instead of just viewing lists of user names or websites, you can...
Senior director of engineering at Adobe Paul Betlem confirmed the company is working on a mobile version of Flash player for Apple’s iPhone. The announcement was in response to a question asked at a town hall meeting Tuesday at Brighton, UK. The iPhone has a fully capable web browser except in one respect: Flash. However, the iPhone is a proprietary platform, and concerns have been voiced as to whether Apple’s increasingly guarded system will support Adobe’s multimedia player. The demand for Flash by users is definitely there. It is currently installed by default in 95% of web users browsers, which...
